Contributions & Achievements
Awards
Publications
- Sarton Medalist, 2018
- Joseph Hazen Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Education, 2015
- Ada Comstock Outstanding Woman Scholar, 2011
- President's Award for Outstanding University Service, 2004
- Mullen/Spector/Truax Women's Leadership Award, UMN, 2002
- George Taylor Distinguished Service Award, Institute of Technology, 2000
- UMN TEL Award: Outstanding Computer Aided Course Project, 1998
- “Teaching and Exhibition on Nineteenth-Century Science Campuses,” Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, ed. Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2017).
- “Museum Perceptions and Productions: American Migration of Maori Hei-tiki,” Endeavor (2016): 3-17.
- "Creative Niche Scientists: Women Educators in North American Museums, 1880-1930" Centaurus (May 2013), 153-174.
- Science and the American Century: Readings from Isis, edited with David Kaiser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
- Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).